Six generations of imaging engineering — from photographic plates, through graphic-arts film and CTP, to today’s industrial inkjet. The machines have changed. The discipline has not.
A concise, fact-plausible heritage line — dates reflect widely reported milestones; specific product launch dates can be verified against Agfa corporate communications on request.
Origins in chemical dyestuffs in Berlin; the abbreviation “AGFA” becomes shorthand inside the nascent imaging industry.
First dedicated photographic products under the AGFA mark — plates, papers and developer chemistry for a growing European photographic trade.
Agfa and Gevaert combine operations with a Belgian headquarters in Mortsel — the engineering centre that still anchors Jeti and Oberon development today.
Agfa establishes itself as a leading CTP platemaker for commercial offset — the colour-management and imaging DNA that eventually underwrites Asanti.
A dedicated industrial inkjet business is formed around the :Anapurna and first-generation :M-Press platforms — the start of today’s Jeti, Anapurna and Oberon story.
The Jeti Tauro LED UV hybrid flatbed debuts — automation options, 3.3 m media handling and LED UV cure bring 24/7 production-floor discipline to wide-format.
Press, ink and RIP shipped and supported as a single engineered system — the through-line Agfa customers told us mattered most when they bought their second machine.
Since 1867, we’ve believed that a wide-format press is a 10-year production asset. That’s why the majority of our after-sales spend flows into service coverage, training and spare-parts logistics — not into marketing. The reason our customers keep coming back isn’t only the machine; it’s the phone being answered when an LED head throws an error at 02:00, and the field engineer who shows up with the right part before the morning shift.
We publish our specs, we ship a 5-year TCO with every quote, and we re-certify our operators every year. For buyers tired of opacity, that consistency is the feature.
“Your uptime is our only KPI. Buying a wide-format press is a ten-year relationship — we plan for year ten on day one.”